Amatoritsero Ede

Amatoritsero "Godwin" Ede is a Nigerian-Canadian poet. He had written under the name "Godwin Ede" but he stopped bearing his Christian first name as a way to protest the xenophobia and racism he noted in Germany, a "Christian" country, and to an extent, to protest Western colonialism in general.^[1] Ede has lived in Canada since 2002, sponsored as a writer-in-exile by PEN Canada. He was a Hindu Monk with the Hare Krishna Movement, and has worked as a Book Editor with a major Nigerian trade publisher, Spectrum Books.

Ede is the publisher and managing editor of Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS).^[2] Between 2005 and 2007 he edited an international online poetry journal, Sentinel Poetry Online.^[3][4] He was the 2005–2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, under the auspices of PEN Canada's Writer-in-Exile network. He was also a SSHRC Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Carleton University, from which he received in his PhD in 2013.^{[citation needed]} His doctoral thesis was titled "The Global Literary Canon and Minor African Literatures," a cultural materialist analysis of the subordination of contemporary African literature to the metropolitan canon. ^{[citation needed]} He has a BA and MA in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and German Linguistics from the University of Hanover, Germany.^{[citation needed]}

Prizes

• 1993: Runner-up prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors' (ANA) Poetry Competition with the manuscript of "A Writer's Pains."^[5]
• 1998: Won the All-Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with his first collection of poems^[6]
• 1998: Won the ANA All Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature (endowed by Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate for literature) with his first collection of poems^[1]
• 2004: Won second prize in the first May Ayim Award: International Black German Literary Prize.^[6]
• 2013: Nigeria Prize for Literature Longlist^[7]

Publications

Research articles

• 2015: "Narrative Moment and Self-Anthropologizing Discourse". Research in African Literatures. Vol. 46.3 (2015): 112–129.
• 2016: "The Politics of Afropolitanism". Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special Issue on Afropolitanism. 28.1 (20 January 2016): 88–100.

Poetry collections

• 2009: Globetrotter & Hitler's Children (New York: Akaschic Books, 2009).
• 1998: Collected Poems: A Writer's Pains & Caribbean Blues (Bremen, Germany: Yeti Press, 1998; Lagos, Nigeria: Oracle Books, 2002).

Poems in anthologies

• 2014: "Pro-rogue."Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria. Tope Omoniyi, ed. Dakar, Senegal: Amalion, 2014: 83.
• 2014: "Winter Morning" in On Broken Wings: An anthology of Best Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. Unoma Azuah, ed. USA: DeLite Press, 2014: 88.
• 2014: "Mother and Child" in Onomonresoa: An Anthology of Nigerian Poets on Mothers and Motherhood. Obari Gomba, ed. Lagos: Hornbill, 2014: 162–164.
• 2010: "Pro-rogue". Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Toronto: Mansfield, 2010:45
• 2007: "Exile". Songs for Wonodi. Dike Okoro, ed. London: Malthouse, 2007:61.
• 2006: "Globetrotter". TOK 1: Writing the New Toronto, Helen Walsh, ed. (Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2006): 102.
• 2006: "Not in Love". Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Nigerian Writing Nduka Otiono & Diego Okonyedo eds (Yenogoa, Nigeria: Treasure Books, 2006): 122–126.
• 2004: "The Skinhead's Lords Prayer." May Ayim Award Anthology, Peggy Piesche et al. eds (Berlin, Germany: Orlanda Verlag, 2004): 69.
• 1996: "Beside the Lagoon" & "Rhythm". Und auf den Strassen eine Pest. Uche Nduka, ed. (Bad Honnef, Germany: Horlemann Verlag, 1996): 39–40.
• 1988: "Song" in Voices from the Fringe: An ANA Anthology of New Nigerian Poetry. Harry Garuba ed. (Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1988):2.
• 1989: "A Writer's Pains". The Fate of Vultures: BBC Prize-Winning Poetry. Peter Porter et al., eds (Oxford: Heinemann International, 1989):31.

Poems in journals

• 2003: Poems in Versal 1. Amsterdam.
• 2006: Poems in Drum Voices Revue. Vol. 14, Issues 1 & 2: *2006:. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA.
• 2011–2012: Poems in African Writing. Issues 2, 3, 4, 7 & 8

Interviews (by George Elliott Clarke)

• 2010: "The Poet as Witness" in Arc Poetry Magazine. Issue 64.

Literary nonfiction in anthologies

• 2014: "The Peaceful "Trouble!" in Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon. Toyin Falola,. ed. North Carolina: Carolina Academic P., 2014: 137

Literary nonfiction in journals

• 2015: "Wit and Witticisms". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 20.
• 2015: "Charlie Hebdo’s Ghost". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 19.
• 2014: "Ulli Beier: A Pagan Yoruba Man in Christian Bayreuth". Maple Tree Literary Supplement issue 18.
• 2014: "The Example of Mandela". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 17.
• 2013: "Experience; Inexperience and (Un)Canadian Poetics". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 16.
• 2013: "The Ree, the Roo, the Raa!; or Bene Bene Pendentes!". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 15.
• 2013: "World without End". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 14.
• 2012: "Sirens Knuckles Boots". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 13.
• 2012: "'Easing' the Arab Spring", in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 12.
• 2011: "Face Me; I Book You: The Arts and Asocial Media". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 10.
• 2011: "The Middle East is a Fiction". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 9.
• 2011: "How (Alfred) Noble is the Nobel Prize?". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 8.
• 2010: "Bakhtin the Poet". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 7.
• 2010: "Of Grammatology and Writing". Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 5.

References

External links

• Curriculum Vitae, Academia
• Amatoritsero Ede at Google Scholar
• AKINGBE, Niyi, "THE ARTICULATION OF SOCIAL DECAY : SATIRE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN POETRY". African Study Monographs 2014, 35(3/4): 183–203 2014–12 https://doi.org/10.14989/193252